Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] would have [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 2 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 3 | Of course I would have contacted you . |
| 4 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 5 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 6 | If he had n't been covered with blood I would have recognized him . |
| 7 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 8 | Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters . |
| 9 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 10 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 11 | If I 'd have said , By the way at the end of this I have to take your photograph it would 've put you off . |
| 12 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 13 | This is necessary as a result of property writedown which would have left it in breach of its £350 million net worth banking covenant . |
| 14 | ‘ If however , you land a blow which would have caused them serious injury and limited them in the fight , then you get a half point . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When you got to the edge of the universe , you were supposed to have turned round and retraced your route which would have brought you back here in the opposite direction to the arrow . ’ |
| 16 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 17 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 18 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 19 | He was flown out from Dublin airport to Manchester after waiving the rights he possessed under Irish law which would have allowed him to stage a marathon legal battle to stay in the Republic . |
| 20 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 21 | Would there have been anybody like like a baker who would have baked it or |
| 22 | ‘ If you were in danger I would have told you , ’ he went on . |
| 23 | Once I found out the truth I would have sold it anyway . ’ |
| 24 | If he had n't had the business I would have left him within a month . |
| 25 | He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests . |
| 26 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 27 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |
| 28 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 29 | And if you had asked my mum and dad whether I had it in me to be an actress or singer they would have laughed you out of town , ’ said Kylie . |
| 30 | At that moment he would have welcomed it , an escape from the agony burning through his chest . |